This archive report was first published on 13 December 2019.
Published on December 13, 2019, officials from Uganda and Rwanda are set to meet in Kampala to discuss the implementation of a pact aimed at ending tensions between the two countries.
Uganda government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo, confirmed that the meeting will be attended by Angola and DR Congo, who are the facilitators to the Luanda agreement.
According to Opondo, the meeting will focus on concretizing the issues in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Luanda, Angola in August 2019.
The meeting is a follow-up to a previous meeting held in Kigali in September, and is expected to fast-track the implementation of an agreement signed by both President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to end two-year long hostilities between the neighbours.
Key on the agenda for the Kampala meeting is the reopening of the two nations' common border for goods and people, which has been closed since late February.
The border closure has had a significant impact on the business community and communities in both countries, with Ugandan exporters desperate to access Rwanda and Burundi markets, and Rwandan citizens running out of stock of popular Ugandan products.
Regional security issues are also expected to be on the agenda, following allegations of Rwandans being harassed, abducted, detained, and tortured in Uganda, which Kampala has denied.
